Apparatus for transporting and dumping material.



. J. NEWMAN.

APPARATUS FOR TRANSPORTING AND DUMPING MATERIAL.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 6 I913.

Patented Apr. 6, 1915.

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W. J. NEWMAN. APPARATUS roa musromma AND DUMPING MATERIAL. APPLICATIONFILED OCT. 6, I9I3- 1,1 34, 15 1 Patented Apr. 6, 1915.

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IHE NORRIS PETERS CO., PHOTO-LITHO.. WASHINGTON. D. C.

WILLIAM J. NEWMAN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

APPARATUS FOR TRANSPORTING AND DUMPING- MATERIAL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 6, 1915.

Application filed October 6, 1913. Serial No. 793,751.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM J. NEWMAN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus forTransporting and Dumping Material, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to apparatus for transporting and dumping materialin bulk, such as earth, clay, sand, debris, and, the like, and theprimary object of the invention isto provide a new and improvedapparatus of this sort comprising a container for the material and meansfor raising and dumping the same, the container being so constructedthat in the transportation of material to the place of dumping it may beused in connection with and to form a part of an ordinary wagon, car orother similar vehicle. My Patent No. 731,118 shows an apparatus of thisgeneral character designed for handling all sorts of material, butparticularly heavy, sticky substances such as the blue clay met with inexcavation work in certain parts of the country. In the apparatus shownin the patent special provision is made for the complete discharge ofmaterial of this sort by certain arrangements which eifect a relativemovement between the body or main portion of the box and its bottombefore the bottom is dropped to dump the load. For certain materials andunder certain conditions this arrangement is not absolutely essentialand my present invention provides a form of apparatus which does nothave this feature and which for that reason can be simplified and henceits cost of construction reduced.

In order that a container for relatively large quantities of heavymaterial handled in bulk should be capable of use in connection with therunning gear of an ordinary wagon or car to take the place of the usualwagon or car body or box, and in order that it should also be capable ofbeing raised from its running gear, moved to a suitable place fordumping and its contents discharged without being racked, pulled looseat the joints and soon rendered useless, such container must be bothlight and strong and in addition, should not be encumbered by pro ectingparts likely to interfere with the use of the Wagon or car of which suchcontainer for most of the time forms a part.

My invention provides a simple and economically constructed container orvehicle body answering to these requirements and a suitable apparatusfor raising the same from its running gear and discharging the loadtherefrom.

The invention is described, in a preferred embodiment, in theaccompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is a side view of the containerand the apparatus for dumping the same; Fig. 2, a fragmentary view ofthe other side of the same; Fig. 3, a detail cross sectional viewshowing particularly the trip and its engagement with the hinged bottomof the vehicle body; Figs. 4 and 5, transverse sectional views of theapparatus showing the bottom in the closed and open positions,respectively, Fig. 6, a fragmentary plan view of the lifting frameforming a part of the dumping apparatus, and Fig. 7, a perspective Viewof one of the hinges employed for hinging the bottom to the body of thevehicle box.

Like characters of reference designate like parts in the several figuresof the drawings.

Referring to the drawings, the container or vehicle body is shown asconsisting of an oblong box composed of sides 10 and ends 11 andprovided with a hinged bottom 12. The box is preferably made of wood forthe sake of lightness. The bottom is connected with the body of the boxby one or more hinges, preferably of the construction detailed in Fig.7. One leaf 13 of the hinge, connected with the other leaf 14: by apintle 15, extends clear across the bottom of the box and is securedthereto by suitable screws 16 or other securing devices. The leaf 14Lextends up one side 10 of the box and is bent over the upper edgethereof, as indicated at 17, and fastened to the wood by bolts 18. Thebox thus constructed may be placed upon the running gear of an ordiofthe wagon. The box of the Wagon may be filled in the ordinary manner andthen brought to the place of dumping. The body 1 of thewagon is then,lifted from the run- 7 ning gear and its'contents dumped by apparatuspreferably constructed as follows:

' r 19 designates a rectangular frame of 'any preferred constructionhaving centrally thereof an I-bolt 20 engaged by the hook21 of a fallblock 22,the cablebf which is indi, Fig." 5, dumping the load. 7 Thebox, b eing supported on one side by the chains'2t andonthe other;by;the;chains 29, can swing as cated at 23; Suspended from one sideof theframe 19 are chains, preferablytwoinnum-.v

ber, 24 terminating in clevises 25 which latter are adaptedtofextendovier and be .se-

curedby; means of pins-26 to lugs or.ipro-' jections27 on the leaves 14of the hinges by hichtheb'ottom of the box is hinged to the body thelugglbeing perforatedto form eyes. The pins are preferably secured tochains 24 by similar chains 28. On the other side of-the framearesuspended chains 29 having at their loweriends clevises 3O adapted toextend'over the up'peredgeseof same.

V example,- by the screws 40,- The the sidemember of the box andato besecured to the box by pins 31 which extend through perforations in thebox'and' in the clevises, the pins 31 being preferably attached tochains 29 by short chains 32. The

chains 29 are intended only to serve as means for supporting the box andsteadying the They farenot intended to take any of-the Weight of theload, the load"being supported on one side by the chains 24: and ontheother side by a chain 33- and a trip member 34 carried thereby, whichtrip member engages the free edge of the bottom of the box. The trip 3 1consists of a'b'ar having a lug 35 to which chain 33 connects, and a lip.or nose 36 which "extends under a projection 37 on a strip of metal 38which extends across the bottom of the box is formed at the otherendpreferably With a flange 39 overlapping the edge of the bottom and issecurely attached to' the bottom, for rip is manipulated by a cable 6L1.v V 7 r I It will be seen that when theboxis raised from 'thewrunninggear, which is accomplished by windingup the cable forming a part of anypref-erred sort' of derrick or lifting apparatus not shownfthe bottomwhich takes the weightof the load is supported on one side by chain, 33and on the other side by the chains 24. All of these chains areconnected to metal parts which extend across the bottom of the box fromside toside, namely, the leaves 13 of" the hinges and the strip 38,which metal parts, therefor-e, receive the stress of the load andsupport it at opposite ends and at themiddlei v This constructionmakesit possible to H obtain'a suflicientlystrong box for dump -ingpurposes which may be made, however,

almost entirely out of wood so that it is light enough for use as anordinary wagon body.

pull "on the tripping rope 41 which draws the nose 36 ofthe tri p' outfrom under the prot hen the supporting frame 19, with the i cting end .7Qt'theban38.,a d the bottom 12 swings down into theposition shown in theload is discharged so as todiminish, the

shock on the parts. Thefbox is returned: to its running gear ibyrfoldingin theobottom 12. The weight ofthe bodyofthebox keeps itin placejon thebotton i' "1i 'In'case theicontaineriisto be. used for o handling verysticky material, such .as wet 1 clay or material which; contains freeliquid likely to drip out through; the: joints of the;

box, th e latter is provided with a lining, made of" canvas, forexample, consisting of end.

sheets 12 secured to the upper vedges of the ends of'the box and sidesheets 13, 4L4 secured to the upper edgesof the sides:of-the boxfl Thesesheets are longer than the'depth-oflthe box so thatthey overlap on thebottom of the If box whenthe box is'closed, as best shown in 1 Fig. at.I The free ends of the sheet drop downwhen the. bottomis droppedallowing! the =material in the box to be freely dis charged;

While I have shown in the'drawings -ropesor -cables forsupportingcertain parts 0f' the apparatus and chains for; supporting}other parts, it-will be obvious that chains?" 7 1 might besubstitutedfor the ropes or cables 5 in the places shown and cables orropes'in the places where chains are used, although f with possibly someslight inconvenience. In 7 claiming the-invention, for want of a suitporting elements in terms corresponding to theshowing of the drawingsbut I do notintend thereby to limit the invention to the use -in"anyparticular situation of either a chain or a rope or cable;

v able'generic term, I have describedthese sup- Inapparatnsfortransporting and amp-.

it -mlay be raisedandlowered, of a vehicle box comprisinga bodypart anda, bottom," chainson one side of said supporting frame adapted to bedetachably securedto one side" of the vehicle body, a'trip. suspendedfrom the same side of said sup'portingframe, a:

pair of chains on the other side of. said supporting frame, apair ofhingeshinging the .bottom'to the body part of the vehicle box comprisingineach case a leaf secured to 7 the underside of the bottom anda. 1eafseCured to the side of the body and formed means adapted to be detachablyengaged by viith 211i) eye, sgid last mlfntiionedh ioaiir of said trip.

0 ains ein a apted to e etac a y secured to the eyes formed on saidhinges, and WILLIAM NEWMAN a metal bar secured to the bottom betweenWitnesses:

said hinges and furnished at the end oppo L. A. FALKENBERG,

site to the hinged edge of the bottom with J. B. LAGORIO.

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